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THE LATE GENERAL F. W. LANDER,—[PHOTOGRAPHED BY
BRADY.]

THE LATE GENERAL LANDER.

The Major-General Commanding,
with deep regret, announces to the Army of the Potomac the loss of
Brigadier-General Frederick W. Lander, the commander of one of its divisions,
who died at Camp Chase, on the Upper Potomac, on the afternoon of the 2d
instant, from the effects of a wound received in the affair with the rebels at
Edwards' Ferry, on the 22d of October, 1861. The public services of the
deceased, then known as Colonel Lander, in connection with the overland route to
the Pacific, had made his name familiar to the American people.

At the commencement of this
unhappy rebellion he was among the first who volunteered to support with his
life the Constitution and laws of his country. From the beginning of the
military operations which have restored Western Virginia to the Union, from the
original movement upon
Philippi, where his qualities as a leader of
troops were strikingly displayed to the complete expulsion of the rebels from
his department, in which he exhausted his fading energies, his conduct has
elicited the admiration of his countrymen. His invaluable services at
Rich Mountain were recognized by the Government
in his appointment as a Brigadier-General, and his last efforts were rewarded by
the official approval and thanks of the President.

Tall of stature, and of great
strength and activity, with a countenance expressive of intelligence, courage,
and sensibility, General Lander's presence was commanding and attractive. As a
military leader, he combined a spirit of the most daring enterprise with
clearness of judgment in the adaptation of means to results. As a man, his
devotion to his country, his loyalty to affection and friendship, his sympathy
with suffering, and his indignation at cruelty and wrong, constituted him a
representative of true chivalry. He has died in the flower of his manly prime,
and in the full bloom of his heroic virtues; but history will preserve the
record of his life and character, and romance will delight in portraying a
figure so striking, a nature so noble, and a career so gallant. While paying
this public tribute of respect, the General Commanding feels most deeply that,
in the death of this brave and distinguished soldier, he has personally lost one
of the truest and dearest of friends, The late BRIGADIER-GENERAL
FREDERICK W. LANDER, above referred to, served, in 1859, as Mr. Potter's second
in the duel with Pryor, and when the latter refused to fight with bowie-knives
he took up the quarrel for his principal, and offered to fight Pryor with any
weapon he chose. The chivalrous Virginian declined the invitation.

In March, 1860, he had an affray
with one Magraw, who drew a revolver on hint in the streets (Next
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